Well the game is totally based ont he movie "The Road to El Dorado". Its hard to decide which is more fun. Personally I had played the game first and then saw the movie so for me it was fun every single bit of it.
The story begins in a seaside Spanish town, where a pair of bumbling con men, Tulio and Miguel, discover their faces unceremoniously featured on a "wanted" poster, which even they can figure out means it is time to move on. Tulio is a schemer with an overactive imagination and lust for fortune that makes him the perfect partner for Miguel, who is more the adventurer looking for glory before gold.
As the player, you will alternately assume and control the characters of Tulio and Miguel, who often require you to work with them in a sort of teamwork approach in order to meet the many challenges and avoid the numerous traps in the game.
Starting in the Spanish town's marketplace, where you will need all of your guile and luck to escape capture by the town officials, you will come into possession of a map that seems to illustrate a route to El Dorado.
Well ... the fun, humor, and discoveries are just beginning as you move on to new worlds of adventure from the brig aboard Cortes's ship to the jungles of South America and eventually stumble into the magical city of El Dorado, where you will find that life is not as simple as you might have wished and you are drawn into the scam of a lifetime.
Along the way, the lives of Tulio and Miguel will be complicated by other characters that they meet, including Altivo, a proud war horse, Tzekel-Kan, the high priest of El Dorado, and Chel, a beautiful native girl, who's a bit of a con artist herself. There is always a lot of humor to balance the nonstop challenges of the puzzles and the traps that you will encounter, and it is evident that in order to succeed you will need to have the skill to play as Tulio and Miguel in a teamwork fashion.
So ... as Tulio and Miguel strive to fulfill their dreams of gold and glory, their friendship will be tested, and they will eventually discover that the fate of El Dorado will be determined by their stealth, wits, and actions.
Can they outwit the schemes of Tzekel-Kan and the fierce Stone Jaguars? Will they save El Dorado from the plundering of Cortes? What will happen to the treasured gold of El Dorado?
I found the story to be captivating, and there are many features in this game that made it a real joy to play, but I would be remiss if I did not report that Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado is easy to moderate in difficulty and also quite short in the time that it should take the average gamer to complete the game. I consider myself to be a plodder when it comes to game play, and I was able to finish the game in about six hours, clearly a personal best for me with regard to brevity of game play.
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