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[Resident Evil / Dead Rising] When the zombie outbreak of Raccoon City happens, the survivors mainly make use of guns and long-range weapons. How would things fare if they used literally anything they can get their hands on?

There are suits of armor with weapons in the Spencer Mansion. Did no-one in STARS think to grab those?
gpt
For one thing, melee weapons would be exhausting. Chris is a big bulky dude, but battle axes are heavy as hell, and it wouldn't take long to get winded. A two on one melee battle would almost guarantee the person would get grabbed. The weapons aren't really designed to bust through skulls or decapitate people either, especially if the STARS officers had never swung a sword before. 

I also hold a firm belief that the virus does something to harden zombie's skulls. A particularly lucky zombie can take 10+ pistol head shots in some of the games, who knows how many mace hits it would take to get through their head. It would however be a whole different story if Resident Evil had Dead Rising zombies.