Have you tried Silo at all osmoses? I think Silo is the best modeler out there. It only cost $109. The only downside is, that is all it does is modeling. You need to import the finished model into another program for animating/rending/hair/etc.
Never tried it i tried 3ds max, maya and blender. For now i will use maya and i will use zbrush when my crappy school get it. I will update later just came from work got to rest and watch godfather .
In silo you can do a tesalate to turn the model into all tris. Also that doesnt not that detailed for a game model. He has a few useless polys on the stomach, but hey this isnt a game model for sega saturn!