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10-Apr-2008 Those who show they are worthy to join the Circle Of Champions. Not that we know what that is.

If there's one good thing about Youtube, bar giving the world Chocolate Rain and mememolly, it's that you now get videogame footage on demand.

And not just lifeless trailers either but footage of living, breathing people sharing their greatest moments, their insightful tutorials and their awful sniper montages with us.

There's a wealth of material to sift through, some of it painfully bad, some of it painfully funny and some of it painful from making your jaw drop. But what about Xbox 360 games? OXM has gone through Youtube and picked 10 of the best videos relevant to Xbox 360 gamers.

Watch them, let us know if you agree or disagree with the list and share your own with us too!

10. Contra speed run

The XBLA version of Contra is tough as nails. It's an exercise in learning patterns, keeping your cool under pressure, military precision and patience.

Or not. This video shows the game being beaten in 5 minutes 43 seconds with an endless charge into impossible odds, and that's even accounting for two deaths on the final boss. Without the deaths, this video would have scored even higher on the list but as it is, it's a brilliant example of why the Contra pros learn to love the laser gun.

9. Call of Duty 4 sniper montage

Sniper montages are the easiest way to cobble together a video and stick it on Youtube to impress the masses, simply because all you need to do is edit all your sniper kills together - no-one will ever see the five shots pinging harmlessly against the wall behind dAmAsTacHeEf94 before you finally slammed him between his virtual eyes with your last sniper round.

Regardless, it's the wealth and variety of the sniper shots that impress here, with the snapshot editing getting through far too many sniper kills to count. But we were more impressed by...

8. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 sniper montage

Scores higher than the Call Of Duty 4 montage because this shows consecutive one shot kills with the sniper rifle, which proves the player doesn't have to rely on the crutch of editing to look better than he actually is. The sniper kills with the funky heat vision mode also looks far better than anything offered in Call Of Duty 4.

It also scores higher because it uses Prodigy for the music, which is always good.

7. Virtua Fighter 5 comeback

In the final of Japan's prestigious SBO tournament, Chibita's two team-mates have just been steamrollered by Kage, leaving Chibita as the last man on his team and facing the prospect of having to eliminate all three players on the other team by himself in order to win the Virtua Fighter 5 tournament. So he steps up to the plate and gets to work with Lion...

6. Geometry Wars all achievements run

The upper end of the leaderboards in Geometry Wars is dominated by scores that often take days to obtain, with K4rn4ge talking about how he paused the game while he went to work, came back, unpaused, then carried on playing to get his multimillion score that topped the leaderboards for several months.

So it's SC0TTLAND1986's condensed video that gets the nod here, simply because he manages to show off his Geometry Wars skills in a much shorter space of time. In this one run lasting just under four minutes, he manages to unlock all 12 achievements - impressive given most players can't do the same over four months...

5. Oblivion's 11-minute speed run

Granted, it's on the PC version, but it's great viewing for anyone who has bragged about how much time they poured into Bethesda's RPG. It exploits what presumably is known as 'the pants glitch', allowing Xevro to skip past the tedious dungeon crawl at the beginning and then jump straight into the main adventure.

From there, he literally jumps to the end section of the game and blazes through to the final showdown. Plenty of people say it took them 60, 70 or even 80 hours to complete Oblivion. How many can say it took only 11 minutes?

4. 508,950 points in Pac-Man: CE

Winner of Best Xbox Live Arcade Game at the most recent OXM Awards, Pac-Man: Championship Edition is maddeningly addictive as you always feel you can do better than your last five minute run. Though that's probably not true if your name is senobeya.

This Japanese player has a near perfect run through the five minute Championship Mode, sailing through several close calls without a scratch and building up an avalanche of points towards the end of his run. And hey, now his video is on Youtube, everyone can copy his tactics! Hurray!

3. Raining Blood, 100% on Expert

WARNING: CONTAINS SWEARING. The shaky camcorder footage doesn't seem anything impressive at the start, especially as the player's younger brother does his best to ruin the video by being really, really annoying. Raining blood, indeed.

But as the note streak continues, even he has to shut up as everyone watching realises something amazing is taking place. A staggering 1247 note streak later (1247 notes!), Raining Blood has just been conquered.

2. Halo 3's Top Ten Plays

Some amazing Halo 3 play here - the sword killing spree on Snowbound, the no-scoping from the back of a Warthog and the accidental grenade splatter that kicks the top ten off.

But it's the freaky one shot, four kills that makes number 2 on ESPN's Top Ten list that really makes this video. It might be more freakish luck than any actual skill but they all count and you will never ever see anything like that in Halo 3 ever again, guaranteed.

1. Ikaruga's double trouble

Most players struggle with Ikaruga as they brain melts trying to change to the right colour to get through the black and white bullet hell. Same colour keeps you alive, opposite colour kills... that's tricky enough for one person to deal with, so how the hell do you manage with two ships on the go?

That's exactly what Japanese player VTF-INO shows off here, as he completes the last level piloting both ships by himself. It's an insane video that is way beyond the dedication, skills and hand-to-eye co-ordination that mere mortals have. Proof, if ever it was needed, that the Japanese are games-loving bots who have beamed into our time from the future having spent 500 years practicing our games of today.

Ryan King