I'm pretty happy with my General Altimax Arctic. I don't have other tires to compare to( Other then my GF's Blizzaks on a FWD Lancer, so no comparison). They seem pretty good. The snow here has been a terrible kind. Thick slush on the bottom with more heavy snow on top, so once you set 2700 pounds on top of it over 4 small contact points, it pretty much just make a skating rink, yet I have been in control all the time. ABS when slowing down doesnt hit very often, unless it's ice, and I even turned into a parking lot that was not cleaned and with snow high enough to clog the front grill and didn't get stuck.
All in all, pretty happy. I would love to try Hakepala(yeah it's butchered and I didn't feel like googling), ya know that Finnish tire that is at the top in nearly, if all winter tire tests, but the Generals are nearly 2 times cheaper, and if you don't drive like an idiot(just do it when no one else is on the road
) they should be up to the task. If I would drive 30,000 miles in a winter, I would go with, that brand, but just driving around town, I'm liking the Generals.