If Tony Hawk is your only skating game experience, you’re going to be disappointed. The controls are completely different; instead of hitting buttons to do tricks, you move the right joystick. It’s intended to simulate real life skating. You’re not going to pull off a Triple Impossible in this game. Also, the gameplay is nothing at all like Tony Hawk.

Also, unless you mean microtransactions, there’s nothing to buy. The game is F2P so go ahead and grab it from Steam and then see for yourself if you like it or not.