Lei

Story

Lei Wulong is a Chinese police officer who has devoted a significant part of his life to his job. Thanks to this, he became a legend of the criminal investigation. At the same time, Lei did not forget about his physical form. He developed his unique fighting style, which probably helped him fight the mafia. Lei Wulong is a good fighter. During one of the investigations, Lei went on the trail of the mafia and Kazuya Mishima. This evidence gave rise to his confrontation with the powerful, criminal, and dangerous multinational corporation Mishima Zaibatsu.

The betrayal of his beloved girl hit his life and career very hard. She cheated on him with his assistant, with whom she organized dates when he was especially busy at work. Lei Wulong became depressed, and an essential anti-mafia operation failed as a result. His colleagues decided to set him up, and Lei Wulong was suspended from work for a while. But he finds the strength not to despair and returns to the confrontation with Mishima Zaibatsu.

He discovers that the criminals plotted the murder of a boxer, who turns out to be Steve Fox. Lei Wulong manages to prevent this and starts an investigation. It soon becomes known that Nina Williams was the hitman in this assassination attempt. As a result, he attempts to capture Nina Williams to harm the mafia and destroy the very structure of Mishima Zaibatsu. To reinstate himself in the police force, he decides to take part in the King of Iron Fist Tournament.

 Interestingly, Heihachi Mishima decided to meet with Lei Wulong and personally invite him to participate in the King of Iron Fist Tournament. It happened amid investigations into many fighters' abductions, attacks on the dojo, and attempts at revolutions in China. The transnational corporation Mishima Zaibatsu was behind all this. Lei Wulong decided to arrest its leader and chose to participate in the Tournament.

Concept

For the character Lei Wulong, the Chinese Hollywood actor Jackie Chan became the prototype. As it turned out, many of his techniques shown in the movies were taken by the developers of this game. However, it is always worth remembering that Jackie Chan is a professional and trained actor, so ordinary people should not repeat this in real life due to the very high risk of injury.

Fighting style

Lei's fighting style is based on the Five Animals form of Chinese martial arts (a martial art that supposedly originated from the Shaolin Temple in Henan, and includes imagery of five forms of animal-based Chinese martial arts: snake, crane, tiger, leopard and dragon) and on Drunken Boxing (a category of techniques, forms and fighting philosophy that appear to imitate a drunkard's movements).

Gameplay

Lei is a high risk/high reward character that has to make very good and creative use of his stances in order to throw off and confuse his opponents. Lei is one of the more difficult characters to use because he requires a good understanding of the game mechanics in order to know what situations are in his benefit. Players usually have to know a good deal of their opponent before Lei can be deadly.