Disney Infinity review

There’s a limit to how many objects you can place on one Toy Box world, but a handy green bar up the side of the screen keeps shows how much room you’ve got left to fill. We found filling it up to just 25% still packed in quite a substantial amount of stuff, so there should be plenty of scope for your creations. There’s room for an almost infinitesimal level of detail, too, once you have everything at your disposal, whether it’s driving a car through Monstro’s gaping jaws from Pinocchio or parking The Black Pearl right next to Scrooge McDuck’s money bin. You can change the pattern on your race tracks, add monster truck wheels to Cinderella’s carriage or use Power Discs (available in blind packs of two from £3 at www.amazon.co.uk) to change the background or add completely new items.

The Toy Box is the only place where different Disney franchises can cross over

If building worlds isn’t quite your idea of fun, there’s always the option of downloading worlds other players have made to play with direct from Disney. This works across all platforms, so you’ll be able to download different Toy Boxes regardless of which console you own and which console it was originally made on.

We’re not sure it’s all worth it, though, as the constant reminders of what you don’t have only serve to make you feel dissatisfied with your current lot. Disney Infinity has a brilliant premise and a huge amount of potential, but its execution is somewhat muddled. Its impressive open worlds are incredibly impressive, but it never quite lives up to the promises made in that opening tutorial. If future Play Sets continue to rely on tedious fetch quests and neglect the strengths of its respective franchises, it may struggle to amount to anything more than a Skylanders knock-off.