I cant speak from experience so I'll just comment on V4, but in that version the game play is centered around what you do to your car at the pit table. Good question about the off road, but seeing as how they charge you for every track right now, I doubt they're just going to include it for free. What are you playing the demo with, keyboard and mouse? Could it be your controls are no good? I haven't downloaded the demo because I cant play PC games with keyboard.