Well it's not boring at all, you'd have to play it. There are also turrets on the top that let you shoot at people through the cars once you make it to the top. I played with 16 people so it was insane. On top of that there are loads of vehicles. Vehicles that kill on impact(The video I linked you to is laggy and you can only see a small fraction of the vehicles). You have to try to judge where they are gonna land and how they will interact with each other(sometimes two smash into one another while falling and leave you a perfect little triangle to duck in and under to get by). Jumping usually results in you getting smacked in the face with a bouncing ferrari. Trust me, it's ridiculously fun. And if it's not fun, just make it fun the way you would anything else. Drink alcohol.

And seriously I know you hate mods and I do too, but you can't tell me this race mod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi0XYxpJ-tk
with maybe 4 warthogs or so and maybe even take health off if they can and give gauss cannons(so you can sort of push people with the gauss to try to knock them off but not kill them). Seriously I wanna play that race one but I doubt it's on the xbox version.