Not a carbon copy... There were many similarities in the beginning, like the MC having a dream about his ex-GF, the car ride to the college, the establishing shot of the college, Cameron taunting the MC, a fighting system (though, completely different), and a stat system (this last one is nothing new in those games, so, if it's a copy, DPC is also copying it, but the two systems were also different, and I even think this one here was more interesting because it was dynamic). After that, the game developed in a completely different path. It was a bad strategic decision from the dev to make those similar things because he got tarnished as a DPC's copycat; however, he was a copycat as much as any dev who made a college game (and DPC, in his turn, would be, then, a copycat of College/High School movies like American Pie, Van Wilder, Dirty Deeds, Class, among others). This bad strategic move, though, was only the first of many because he had a great product in his hand, with many patrons, but, now, his numbers are plummeting.