The lead animator for Mass Effect 2 has shared a previously unreleased trailer for the game, only ever seen by the developers at BioWare.

This trailer, described as a demo reel of the in-progress cinematics, dates back to April 2009. It would have been used to demonstrate the kind of work that the animation team was doing for Mass Effect 2, and eagle-eyed fans will notice several scenes that did make it into the final game.

Fuck it - here's something for #N7Day I haven't shown before. A very pre-alpha internal trailer intended to highlight the cinematics we were creating in Montreal.

Faces were the average of all the customisation sliders in Maya, and we ran every scene with each possible squamate when polishing.

Released by Jonathan Cooper, a game developer who has worked with the likes of BioWare, Ubisoft, and Naughty Dog, this Mass Effect 2 trailer gives us an incredibly early look at some of the game’s characters and pivotal moments. While it can be a little hard to make out, we can spot companions like Miranda, Garrus, and Jack.

Cooper hasn’t shared too much info on the trailer, but did say what it was like to work on it. “[…] remembering all the arguments and drama on the team haha,” he said. “But mostly reading the scripts and getting pumped imagining how awesome we could make Shepard look hitting those story beats.”

Mass Effect 2 was quite the departure from the first game, and this internal trailer makes that perfectly clear.

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