You could, but the part of them that makes them "not them anymore" is usually their brain function, or at least the part of it that keeps them from becoming angry and not being able to think about who is their ally, friend, etc, and they just attack everything. They go hostile, and I don't really like the idea of people dying and then just being like "Aw darn, can someone kill me really quick?" because that removes the part of the mob that makes them an actual zombie: the mindless wandering and attacking.
I'm not saying this isn't a good idea for an alternate mode or a mod but for the current "Survival" mode I think it would be a little counterproductive to become a zombie and go a kill some of the last people alive.
This would actually be a very nice idea for a zombie mode, where you spawn in a grassy field, someone turns into a zombie on the first night and kills someone. Superzombies vs people, and each person you kill joins your zombie horde. That would be cool, but I'd like to keep this thread on the original topic, where the reskinned mob is spawned, which I think would be much better for regular SMP instead of super zombies all over the place.
I'm not saying this isn't a good idea for an alternate mode or a mod but for the current "Survival" mode I think it would be a little counterproductive to become a zombie and go a kill some of the last people alive.
This would actually be a very nice idea for a zombie mode, where you spawn in a grassy field, someone turns into a zombie on the first night and kills someone. Superzombies vs people, and each person you kill joins your zombie horde. That would be cool, but I'd like to keep this thread on the original topic, where the reskinned mob is spawned, which I think would be much better for regular SMP instead of super zombies all over the place.