Uncharted 2 uses 30,000 polygon models outside of pre-rendered scenes

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CcB1MdhiIpI/SrQKX3FvoxI/AAAAAAAAACs/mtHaFn4Il_o/s1600-h/DSCF1033b.JPG

also Killzone 3 uses ~40k polygon models for cutscenes ~10k ones in game 

http://www.pixologic.com/interview/killzone3/6/

and a list of older games

Gears of War, Xbox 360, 2006
Wretch - 10,000 polygons with diffuse, specular and normal maps 
Boomer - 11,000 polygons with diffuse, specular and normal maps 
Marcus - 15,000 polygons with diffuse, specular and normal maps 

GTA San Andreas, PS2, 2004 
Characters - 2,000 polygons with 1 256×256 8bit texture 
NPCs - 1,200 polygons with 1 256×128 8bit texture
Gant bridge - 16,000 polygons, includes LOD

Halflife 2, PC, 2004 
Alyx Vance - 8323 polygons 
Barney - 5922 polygons 
Combine Soldier - 4682 polygons 
Classic Headcrab - 1690 polygons 
SMG - 2854 polygons (with arms) 
Pistol - 2268 polygons (with arms) 

Halo, Xbox, 2001 
Masterchief - 2,000 polygons 

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Gamecube, 2005 (Small mistake here, it's not on GC but PS2)
Snake - 4,000 polygons 

Resident Evil 4, Gamecube, 2005 
Leon - 10,000 polygons 

Jak & Daxter, PS2, 2001
Jak - 4000 polygons

Jak II, PS2, 2003
Jak - 10,000 polygons*

Lost planet, X360/PC, 2007
Wayne - 12392 polygons (but finally 17765 polygons for compatibility with motion blur effect)
VS robot - 30-40,000 polygons
Background - ~500,000 polygons
Peak number of polygons per frame - ~ 3 million**

Dead Rising, X360, 2006
Peak number of polygons per frame - ~ 4 million**

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, GC, 2002
Link - 2800 polygons

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, GC/Wii, 2006
Link - 6900 polygons

Super Mario Sunshine, GC, 2002
Mario - 1500 polygons
Levels - ~ 60,000 polygons

Dead or Alive series, Xbox, 2001-2004
Character - ~10,000-15,000

Vitua Fighter 5, Arcade/PS3/X360, 2006
Character - ~40,000 with diffuse, specular and normal maps
Background - 100,000 - 300,000 polygons

Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, PC, 2002
Character - 4096 polygons

Project Gotham Racing 3, X360, 2005
Cars - 80,000-100,000 polygons (interior exterior), damages add between 10,000 and 20,000 more polygons per car
Brooklyn Bridge - 600,000 polygons (LOD might be included)
Manhattan Bridge - 1 million polygons (LOD might be included)

Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, PS3, 2007
Cars - 200,000 polygons (probably interior exterior)

Midnight Club, Xbox360/PS3, 2007
Cars - 100,000 polygons

Gran Turismo 3, PS2, 2001
Cars - ~2,000-4,000 polygons

Gran Turismo 4, PS2, 2004
Cars - ~2,000-5,000 polygons

Lair, PS3, 2007
Main dragon plus its rider - 150,000 polygons
16x16KM scene - 134M polygons (streamed into memory, not loaded at run time)

Deathrow, Xbox, 2002
Characters - up to 7,000 polygons - 55 bones - 1024x1024 textures on the bodies and 512x512 on the faces

Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, PS2/Xbox/GC, 2002
Characters - ~7,000-10,000

Mortal Kombat 4, Zeus Arcade Board, 1997
Peak number of polygons per second - 1.2 million quad patches**

Mass Effect, X360, 2007
Sheppard armor weapons - ~20,000-25,000 polygons

Virtua Fighter 4, Naomi 2, 2001
Jacky - 14,000 polygons 

Virtua Fighter 4, PS2, 2002
Jacky - 7,000 polygons

V-Rally 3, PS2, 2002
Vehicles - 15,000-16,000 polygons (Might count multi-passes)
Stages - 500,000 polygons

Kingdom Under Fire : The Crusaders, Xbox, 2004
Main characters - 10,000 polygons
Characters - 3,000–4,000 polygons

Axel Impact/DTRacer, PS2, 2003/2005
Cars - Base mesh ~12,000 polygons (max LOD)
Volume Shadow mesh - 4,000-5,000 Vert (dynamic shadows are not stored as actual polygons, hence vertex count)
Stages - ~200k polygons

Canned Boss Game Studios game, Xbox, 2002
Cars - 25000 polygons (highest LOD) - 4 textures/poly, Base texture, Reflection map, a texture used to compute a fresnel term, Shadow map, Specular highlight (encoded in the alpha channel of the reflection map)
Backgrounds - 2 or in some cases 3 textures/poly
Peak number of polygons per second - 30M polygons**

Half-Life, PC, 1998
Zombie - 844 polygons
High Definition pack Zombie- 1700 polygons

Half-Life, Dreamcast, 2000-2001 (Canned)
Zombie - 1649 polygons

Half-Life, PS2, 2001
Zombie - 2822 (Highest LOD) 

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, PS3, 2007
Main characters - ~20,000-30,000 polygons
Drake - ~30,000 polygons
Pirates - ~12,000-15,000 polygons

Crysis, PC, 2007
Nano-suit character - 67,000 polygons (uncertain whether it's an in-game model or not)*
Characters' heads - ~2500-3000 polygons 
Characters' bodies - ~5000 polygons

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=43975

I'm very interested in finding out exactly how many poly's Halo Reach characters have, cause from everything I've heard its fairly high.  I know that BUngie claims that the Assalt Rifle alone in Halo Reach has more Poly's than an entire Marine did in Halo 3.

Though I have a feeling Uncharted 2 and God of War 3 have the most.

if some one finds out, i will add.

but it doesnt matter if master chief doesnt have as many poly, it still looks good enough for what it is

Just a correction about polygon... not all character has the numbers showed here... eg:

God of War III - 20k

That's not true... just Kratos has 20k polygon... all others characters has 10k, 5k or less.

Uncharted is other case... Natan has 35k in Uncharted 2 and 30k in Uncharted but the others characters has less.

The list will be better if it shows just the characters name with these polygon and not the game itself.