I was wondering too when I read that first post just now. Yeah, this game is really sweet, I can't make comments on the lightning in 3 cause I haven't seen it but in 4 it looks pretty cool at level 1. I just got this game yesterday, by the way.
I got to Act IV for the Wu side, I just used Sun Shang Xiang. I had played her some on DW4: Xtreme Legends on one of my friend's PS2 and I got used to her, her attacks were awesome. I also played Gan Ning some in 3 and his true Musou attack was awesome, so was his level 4 and 5 weapons. Anyway because I haven't had it for long I haven't played Zhou Tai, but his character design is the
and so is his weapon.(from seeing it in the instruction manual)