I'll be totally pissed off if the undead race is a zombie. I was truly hoping for a skeleton playable character. Right now the market is over-saturated with Zombies thanks to the Walking Dead. I'm actually becoming irritated every time I see new zombie merchandise. It's like how Twilight over-saturated the market with Vampires. Although Walking Dead is far better than Twilight could ever hope to be.
The zombie talent does not make you a zombie, it gives you healing from poison and damage from standard healing.