Interestingly, the retail disc version 1.00 did include Photo Mode. Build 8008283 added Photo Mode to the game as a last-minute surprise. This included:
The game crashed. Elias’s room went pitch black. When he rebooted, the file was gone, replaced by a 0kb shortcut titled He looked at his hands in the glow of the monitor; for a split second, they were stained with digital ash. god of war v101 day 1 patch build 8008283 updated
Fixed a bug where certain menu text would overlap in non-English localized versions. Interestingly, the retail disc version 1
Fixed a critical issue where performance would degrade over long play sessions, often described by users as a memory leak-like behavior. HDR Fixes: the file was gone
: Addressed several issues that were causing the game to crash sporadically.