Internal Mass Effect 2 Trailer Gives Us the Earliest Look at the Game Yet

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.

— Jonathan Cooper (@GameAnim) November 7, 2026

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 …