Ok so this a pretty straightforward, did you do this question: 
At the end of the picus level, there's a turret in one room.  When looking at it, for some unknown reason I saw I could pick it up.  So I did.  And carried it all the way with me to the boss fight.  Didn't use it in the boss fight (you can't take it in that room) but it did all the hard work for me.  Anyone else try this?  My wife was watching and kinda said she felt like it was cheating, and I did a little too, but it was totally doable.  Thoughts?

With the strength aug you can pick up any ground based turret. You actually can bring a turret with you to the 3rd boss fight and some people have beaten him that way.

Huh, I've killed guys with the turret before (literally) but that's new. Good to know that the game gives plenty of options in combat. While the boss fights aren't difficult, they're pretty terrible so this seems like a fair way to get around it. I didn't have trouble with them myself since two EMP grenades and 2-3 rockets is enough to finish them in less then a minute. I even managed to finish the first one without being spotted. Well, on medium difficulty anyway.

I placed it out in the hallway while waiting on the funicular.  This was after I mined the halls outside and before I blocked up the entrances to the room.  Somehow a guy still got it (I think he must have clipped through the level geometry), so I got through that whole point-defense section with just having to kill one dude myself.

Huh, I've killed guys with the turret before (literally) but that's new. Good to know that the game gives plenty of options in combat. While the boss fights aren't difficult, they're pretty terrible so this seems like a fair way to get around it. I didn't have trouble with them myself since two EMP grenades and 2-3 rockets is enough to finish them in less then a minute. I even managed to finish the first one without being spotted. Well, on medium difficulty anyway.

Oops posted too early. Damn mobile site. I was going to say its not that easy on Give me Deus Ex, unfortunately. Especially not the third boss (that's where I'm stuck currently)

It was in one of the gameplay trailers under the 'adaptive' gameplay style.

That's a neat idea! Too bad it doesn't jive with non-lethal playthroughs. 

Oops posted too early. Damn mobile site. I was going to say its not that easy on Give me Deus Ex, unfortunately. Especially not the third boss (that's where I'm stuck currently)

@eroticfishcake said:

@mfpantst: I never used the the Typhoon. I just tazered her to death instead. I honestly don't know why boss fights are even in this game though. It's not the like they're central to the main story and if they are, they certainly don't feel like it. It's almost like they exist just for the sake of being a video game. A real sore spot for an otherwise, great game I say.

I kind of agree, they weren't done very good, but having a high-stakes confrontation is just a good storytelling technique. Fighting hordes of troops who all suck just isn't the same as a single, powerful opponent that really tests your abilities.

The bosses that are there, though, don't really represent that ideal. They should have put a tank or a mech or something in there that presents a realistic or obvious challenge, instead of crazy bullet sponges with attack patterns from 1997.

It's great until that turret explodes and kills you