Breakaway preview: Amazon's first game blends basketball with the MOBA genre

Breakaway's Black Knight is a fearsome foe--all 400 pounds of him. Clad in spiky black armor, standing seven feet tall, and with a man-sized axe in his massive gauntlets, he's basically a murderous brick wall standing between me and freedom. In a modern-day David and Goliath situation, I strafe my way around the Black Knight's left side, flitting just past his weapon and making a break for-- I sprint up the stairs of fabled El Dorado, leap into the air like some ancient-world Michael Jordan, and slam a golden ball down into the pit on the ground. It's an interesting phenomenon that the best "Sports" video games are at best an abstract representation of real-world sports. Oh sure, developers have made astonishing simulations of real sports, with the world's best football and hockey and soccer stars meticulously recreated not just in appearance, but with tables upon tables of stats to delve into.