Well, that didn’t take long.

An apparent work-in-progress trailer for the canceled Mass Effect game has made its way to Reddit , a day after the project was canceled and its studio BioWare closed down by EA as part of around 400 layoffs at the company. And while it’s tough to completely verify its legitimacy, it certainly doesn’t look to be AI-generated. And if it’s a fake, it’s an extremely well-done one.

Codenamed Mass Effect: Universe (colloquially Mass Effect 4 , as called by one of the canceled project’s writers), it shows the mysterious cloaked N7 figure from concept art and early trailers, unmasked, talking to an Asari in a bar. The conversation is interspersed with combat footage, with the presumed player character using Biotic attacks, flying ships, and taking down Turian enemies with hand-to-hand combat.

Then, the Asari reveals herself as an adversary, at which point series icon Liara T’Soni shows up behind her, and the battle kicks off. Everything, to be frank, looks absolutely amazing.…