Animated corpses have about 50 SDC, have 2 attacks and a crappy speed without bonuses. They take double damage from fire but otherwise are immune to critical hits (They don't care if their lungs are punctured) this is paraphrased from the animate dead spell.
The zombie is substantially tougher. If you have GI or CS there is a voodoo villain who animates tougher zombies that could be used to pound heroes en masse.
Zombies should posess powers revolving around damage resistence, SDC and strength.
As for a zombie character?
a) Make your own character class, the living dead.
b) Use animated corpse as the start of a low budget eugenics experiment
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LIVING DEAD!
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