Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo stopped by to see us during last week’s trip to NYC, and sat down for some hands-on with Dead Rising 2’s coop mode. 

Obviously there are a lot of fantastic death-dealing dynamos (far too many to list–the famous paddle + chainsaw for Darth Maul-esque zombie-decapitating fun, sawblade vacuum cleaners, nail-covered baseball bats, the “personal massager,” etc.), but Stephen decided to take a different approach, instead detailing a few of the *least* effective things you could pick up and use against the undead hordes .  They include things like the foam finger, spray paint, giant stuffed animals, and more. 

You can check out his writeup here , but remember–while some things really are as useless as they seem, you can come up with some nasty surprise uses for many of them. 

For instance, while Stephen is right that the super-soaker on it’s own is only good for making it seem like zombies peed their pants, if you’ve got a teammate with, say, an electrified rake, soaking down a crowd of zombies before your buddy gives em’ the old rake will cause the electricity to arc between all of them, frying about 10x as many, and *fast*. 

Also, just for the record, the number of weapons in DR2 is definitely in the hundreds!