Under investigation in this letter is a (2+1)-dimensional generalized breaking soliton equation, which describes the (2+1)-dimensional interaction of a Riemann wave propagating along the y-axis with a long wave along the x-axis. A singularity analysis is carried out and it is shown that this generalized equation admits the Painleve property for one set of parametric choices. Some integrable properties of the corresponding Pain leve integrable equation, such as its bilinear form, N-soliton solution, bilinear Backlund transformation, Lax pair and infinite conservation laws are derived with the binary Bell polynomials. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.