1st person new horror style!

[Alardem]

FEAR did this in 2005

FEAR had you play a superhuman killing machine, not a scared young girl. Haunting Ground, Clock Tower and Silent Hill 3 have got that covered.

But yeah, I'd like to see the protagonist's body in horror games - makes you feel less like a floating camera. Some liberal dose of gore would also help in making death something to fear and avoid, so long as it's not as stupidly exaggerated as Dead Space.

Hearing the Man-Pigs chewing on your corpse, or watching your own blood spill across the floor, would go a long way towards making death less enticing than an excuse to make monsters despawn.