Sergeant Joel Blake is a playable character and main protagonist of Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour. He is a U.S. soldier, and also a member of Phantom Unit. He played an important role against Edward Page's terrorist attacks.

Early life

Blake's past beyond joining the US army is unknown. He got his start as a member of the US Army in 2009. He was then promoted to the 3rd Special Forces Team in 2012. He has seen many instances of war and battle, mainly in Morocco, Burma and Iran.

Personality

Calm, focused and reliable, Blake is a silent professional. He will do anything it takes to serve his country and fight for what is right.

Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour

Red Summit

There are problems at the C3 Conference in Hawaii. The US Army is sent with amphibious vehicles, Drones, hovercrafts and tanks to secure VIPs and diplomats.

Walker's team and Blake lands and secures the beachhead of SGS mercenaries, before moving on to the island. Knight contacts the team and informed them the island was swarming with SGS mercenaries. She instructed Blake and his team to rendezvous with Delta force. After finding another US solder with a deployed ground drone, Blake uses his tablet to control the drone and eliminate a few SGS soldiers, before proceeding. Knight informs them that a diplomat was able to make a call from inside the conference center and that the security that had been hired for the summit, Saunders Global Security, were responsible for the attack on Hawaii and that they had taken over the entire Iakko Beach Resort. After rendezvousing with 2 delta force soldiers, Walker and Blake proceeded to clear the walkway, with Knight sending Hover drones to assist. Once at a jamming tower, Blake called in a paragon missile using his tablet that destroyed the gate blocking their path. They are then instructed by Knight to move up the road and meet up with Lieutenant Magnus Downs of Phantom Unit. After Downs arrived in a light utility vehicle, they began their way to the SGS anti-aircraft batteries.

They proceeded to take out 2 SGS anti-aircraft batteries that prevented the US forces from using air support. Blake, Downs and Walker cleared out the first area then destroy the first Anti aircraft vehicle, then to the second, this time Blake destroys it with a nearby CTK-88 Crumplor.

Knight directs them to the Iakko hotel for extraction. They storm the hotel lobby, filled with enemies, and fight their way to the extraction point.

The mission ends with Downs saying: "Shit, this situation is not going to unf*** itself" to Walker.

Threatcon Delta

Blake, Downs and Walker then travel via helicopter to a different section of the Iakko Resort and the C3 Conference to rescue the President from the SGS terrorists.

After reaching the helipad at the top the hotel, Walker points his gun at Edward Page at the moment he wants to escape via helicopter with the President, but Page uses the president as a human shield. Unable to take the shot, Walker and Blake watch helplessly as the helicopter takes off and the President is kidnapped. Knight didn't not pick up vehicle movement as Page was jamming a local radar to prevent the US forces from following him. Knight instructed Blake and Phantom to stand by while their Intel searched for a lead on the President's whereabouts.

Manhunt

The US needs to know Page's location. The decide to search for Everett Saunders, the leader of the SGS. Phantom Unit is sent to Barcelona to arrest him.

Critical Path

Blake is seen in Critical Path, but this time not as a playable character.

Carter (player) is ordered to provide drone support for him.

Terminus

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Thanks to the support of Carter, Phantom Unit made it to the train station where Saunders is settled. They invade the station and at the end of the mission, Blake throws Saunders off a balcony.

Hammerstrike

President Burke is held at the SGS headquarters in South Africa. The US Army is sent there with fighters, helicopters and tanks to rescue the president. The team of Walker is ordered to take out communication towers.

At the end of the mission, a missile hits the helicopter and Blake falls in the storage room of the base, knocking him unconscious.

Operation Shogun

Conscious, Blake struggles up and finds that an enemy soldier is entering the storage room he is in. Pulling out his knife, he goes around the corner and stabs the enemy. Hurrying his way to a computer room, Blake finds a security recording of Page with a tied up Burke, Page shoots Burke in the gut. Blake finds Burke held captive in a nearby aircraft hanger and supports him. He succeeds and a US helicopter extracts him and the president.

Page is seen fleeing to Antarctica with a jet and Burke reveals the words Antarctica, WMD, H5N1.

Cold Vengeance

Phantom Unit is sent to the Unified Citizens base in Antarctica. Page is producing a powerful virus, H5N1, there.

Upon arriving at a biolab, Anderson locates a shipping manifest for a thousand aerosol containers but more importantly, finds out that Page has created orthomyxoviradae, a weaponised variant of the H5N1 virus. According to Knight, the strain can theoretically kill about 4 billion people with it. Knight then orders Anderson and Blake to get out of the biolab, saying that a Hazmat team is en route, but Anderson disobeys orders and orders Blake to open the door leading to the room where the bioweapon canisters are located. Blake does so, but Anderson locks him outside the room. Page enters the room and after a short fistfight, Page defeats Anderson and stabs him. Anderson, defeated, tells Blake to detonate the C4 that Anderson had placed on the bioweapon canisters. Blake does so, killing Anderson and incapacitating Page.

Extreme Sanction

The last mission starts with Page, but after Blake killed him, the mission will be played in Blake's point of view.

The team has to escape from the exploding laboratories with the wounded Downs. After the events of Cold Vengeance, it is presumed that Blake got promoted to Sergeant as a result of him killing Page and rescuing the president.

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See also

Campaign of Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour
Missions	Red Summit • Unified Terror • Aftermath • New World Order • Threatcon Delta • Manhunt • Critical Path • Terminus • Hammerstrike • Operation Shogun • Cold Vengeance • Extreme Sanction
Characters	Joel Blake • Anderson • Carter • Burke • Magnus Downs • Edward Page • Everett Saunders • James Walker • Knight • Caydan Phoenix
Factions	Phantom Unit • S.G.S • Unified Citizens • United States Army • AFTER

Trivia

• Blake is the only playable character whose face is seen in just one game.
• Blake and Walker are the only protagonists whose first name is known.