Ancient thing I saw on an early version of AOM

My family got AOM when I was 4/5, this would've been around 2004/5 maybe, and it was in the UK. I remember seeing a weird clip of a cyclops fighting a bunch of swordsmen. Except it looked like a very odd version of the game, like it was some kind of alpha or something, it looked very odd, kinda like AOE 2 (I had that game at the time). I remember the cyclops throwing someone and him decomposing into a skeleton (odd since that isn't there in AOM). I always was puzzled by this, does anyone know anything about alpha/pre-alpha versions of the game. Looking at some early alphas I can see some influence of AOE.