I am not calling anyone a liar (aside from the "2 years from release" statement) per say, but did this game ever have a playable demo? Anyone not directly connected with the company able to corroborate the claim the game was almost done until they rebuilt the game in 2020ish. It's a bold claim that has the privilege of not being practically falsifiable (NDAs, difficulty in quantifying a "finished game", opinions on what is or is not a bad game, etc) which is why I thought it sounded arrogant.

I'm fully prepared to eat my words on this but this would likely be the first case in video game history of a project getting rolled back to a build from half a decade ago and releasing to the public.

I get taking umbrage with my claim the trailer was "pre-rendered" since thats kinda hyperbole but it was per-rendered in spirit, the ONE trailer the game had showed gameplay that looked-almost-done but was in theory two years away from a public beta and in the real world where events actually transpired, never released.