So here's the thing: LittleBigPlanet 1 and 2 still had a story mode to play through. All of the content from both games were carried over to 3, so it's not lost to time. Modnation Racers, on the other hand, is not a game that works without its online component.

On its own, it's a pretty solid kart racer, but the main selling point of the game is absent with its servers shut down. If my memory serves me right, I think the game tries to add bots to give you the illusion of empty areas being populated? But it's pretty obvious and doesn't circumvent the issue at hand.

The PlayStation 3 has this weird thing of having exclusives that haven't come to other platforms. I know they made an inFAMOUS game on the PS4, but that was made from the ground up for that platform, and the two games (and expansion pack) that came before it can't be played on any hardware but a PS3. If you want to go deeper into the rabbit hole, the same thing applies to Metal Gear Solid 4. Modnation Racers is just another unfortunate example of this, and, as a result, I don't expect any sort of resurgence for this series anytime soon.

It might be fun to look back on for the sake of nostalgia, but that's about the only value it has left twelve years later.