what if we asked a 40 year old man who hasn't played anything but Call Of Duty what his idea of a survival horror game is?
his description would be a perfect match to what "Dead Space 3" is.

The game isn't horrible, but its not any good either. its just a mediocre third person shooter but instead of a war zone you're in a rusty space ship or a rusty building. "horror" to the EA meant killing monsters instead of humans, and "Survival" meant having an inventory, which is completely useless, I finished the game on a difficulty called "impossible" and not once did i have to slightly manage my items, worry about saving ammo or heals, never had to avoid enemies or think about my path, Just walk forward and shoot whatever's in front of you.
That said, in co-op we had fun and it all functioned fairly well, there even are few sequences where one of the two characters is getting corrupted so he sees things that are only on his screen which is kinda cool.

not giving this a positive review because i would actually recommend it to anyone, but because i don't think it deserves a negative review either, it just functions as a basic co-op shooter.

Deadspace 3 was a mixed co-op adventure. Far removed from the survival horror roots from the first game. It plays like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gears of war mixed with alien colonial marines. It’s buggy, the story plays out like a bland CGI filled action movie from the early 2010, the gunplay starts off pretty underwhelming, and none of the characters are interesting enough for you to enjoy following them for the 12 hours this game takes to complete. The game is also rather easy, with me and a friend completing it on impossible difficulty with few deaths during actual gameplay. Most of our deaths came from the horrible scripted setpieces, these are incredibly buggy, and oftentimes you will be destroyed by a piece of debris with a hitbox double the size of the in game model. The music was also grating.

That being said, I would recommend the game to people who wish to coop a shooter game with a story. The gunplay did improve over the course of the game(As the strength of your weapons improved), and the selection of guns was cool (Even if around half of them suck at taking out necromorphs). If you’ve already played good co-op third person shooter games like Resident Evil 5 or 6 you might as well give this game a shot, it’s only like 5$ on sale.

Dying in space was more fun