The beta is very likely to be a build that was used at E3 or that was thought to be. The state of development of the game sows doubt. Either the technical demo was programmed to be a build for E3 and to be tested by the QA teams (where all these dev disks come from) before being corrected and finally finalized as a real E3 demo build, or it is a prototype that was shown in small committee to journalists (behind closed doors) at E3 2001