Boomer is one of your allies in Far Cry 5.
Boomer is one of your allies in Far Cry 5.
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Far Cry 5 hands-on: Taking Falls End with your dog Boomer

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 demo at Gamescom took me through the Falls End demo that it showed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). But this time I was able to capture video from the demo so you can see how it looks.

Far Cry 5 is one of the games that will make us all uncomfortable in the post-Trump America. Like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, it looks at extremism becoming the norm in the U.S., and it shows what it’s like to resist when you are the underdog. On my second look at this game, it played better.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.