GameSpy: How do the starting characters differ?

Mike Laidlaw: If you jump right into the game and play the characters in there, you'll certainly notice that Radiant Jen Zi, one of our "fast" characters, is far more capable at using weapons and focus mode, while Tiger Shen, a "strong" character, can take quite a bit more of a beating than his lithe counterpart. Similarly, Wu the Lotus Blossom is "balanced" and walks between the previous examples in both survivability and speed.