One day after EA announced it was shutting down Mass Effect developer BioWare , a pretty convincing trailer for what some are alleging was meant to be the now-canceled Mass Effect 5 has begun circulating online. The trailer, which has not been verified as legitimate yet, suggests that the game’s title might have been Mass Effect Universe , and that it might have starred a new hero working alongside original trilogy companion Liara T’Soni.
The trailer begins with a disclaimer that it uses pre-production assets but is in-engine, and shows a man in the same N7 trench coat seen in the previous teasers meeting with an Asari at a bar. The man says he previously was part of the Alliance military, but now is in a “new line of work,” seemingly working off-the-books in some way. We see him do some cool action-movie shit before the Asari threatens him. Then, we see Liara reveal herself and a biotic bar fight ensues.…