Also about the twist:
They aren't zombies. Here's a post from another message board that explains it:
Ages ago, the Spaniards came searching for El Dorado, which was believed to be a golden city but was really a golden statue. They found it. They opened it up, and out came the virus and made them all go insane and lose much of their humanity.
Now, after generations of crazy Spaniards inbreeding (I'm not making this up, it was confirmed by someone at ND - possibly Evan Wells) they've turned into grotesque-looking creatures, more animal than human. So that's what the "zombies" are. They are crazy inbred Spaniards, not undead fantasy creatures.
The same thing happens to Gabriel when he opens the statue at the end of the game (although he is just changed mentally - the physical changes to the Spaniards is the result of the inbreeding). Navarro knew that this would happen all along, as his goal is to secure the virus and sell it to the highest bidder for use in biological warfare.
What may be a bit removed from reality is how fast the virus acts, instantly making its victim into a raging maniac, and also that it's contained inside the statue and clearly visible (but if it hadn't been, you wouldn't know what was happening). Other than that, there's nothing that dumb about it.
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