before I start going on and on about how good or bad the game is it sounds like you are buying this for this PS2....you mentioned everything that you need to buy for the game except the wonderful 75-100 dollar hard drive.... might wanna also consider that before anything else..

Personally i have both ps2 and compy (heh I am over compulsive) and would say the compy would be better cost wise than the ps2 at this time.