The player controls a professional skateboarder from a third-person perspective. Each area contains goals such as reaching score targets, collecting objects, performing specific tricks, and finding hidden items.

Players move freely through levels, using ramps, rails, walls, and gaps to build combos. Career progress unlocks additional challenges and stat improvements, while single-session modes focus on scoring within a time limit. The PlayStation version also includes multiplayer options, subject to its local hardware and mode limitations.

Explore each area before attempting difficult goals so you can learn its ramps, rails, and routes.

Use manuals to connect separate trick sections, and save special tricks for moments when a large gap or sequence can multiply the score.

Improve weak statistics after completing goals, especially ollie height, air, and speed, because they open routes that are otherwise difficult to reach.