Hits the perfect sweet spot between skating enormous lines being complex and doable but also requiring knowledge of the map to really take advantage. The games after this tried to get cute with it (sticker slaps, caveman, grind and flatland shuffling) that meant that combos were more about your ability to spam as many tricks as possible and not worry about the terrain. Also helps that unlike THPS2's godawful map list pretty much all the maps are solid gold in this one (except cruise ship).